little bundles of joy - pacchettini di gioia

My Christmas present to me... a box of oil colours what a lovely surprise to find them all wrapped in their own little bubble wrap jackets

Mi sono dato per Natale... una scatola dei colori che bella sorpresa di trovare ciascuno avvolti nel loro giacchine di pluriball

small objects of desire

Been working on some sculptures lately. These are smaller than your fist  and are inspired by small roman and etruscan bronzes … others are larger… thinking about what we recognise as human. How our brains look for faces in everything and how figures however disfigured register with us… More laters...

Finalmente… esce nel mondo - stasera a Vinosofia, Spello

Finalmente questo quadro di cui ho documentato il progresso qui in questo blog esce nel mondo. Sara alla mostra - Side by Side a Vinosofia a Spello stasera per il vernissage e poi fino a 3 Dicembre. 

Vi aspettiamo dal 17:00 in poi Stasera

Finally the painting I have documented here is to get out in the world. It will be on show at my show Side by Side at Vinosofia, in Spello. Tonight for the private view and on until 3 December. 

We look forward to seeing you there from 5pm tonight

A3 - olio su telo 

in situ a Vinosofia, Spello

Vinosofia, Spello

A penny for the Guy

Shadow Man – Wiggo

Lovely sunny day here yesterday and just look what its thrown up. I have a slightly (well completely) stalled project to make a knitted man and wife, - the knitting got to me. Anyway Wiggo as Adrian has dubbed him is loitering about the studio and creating his own art. Not sure if he'll lead me somewhere or is doomed to be just a folly - only time will tell. Maybe I'll burn him tomorrow night for Guy Fawkes. A penny for the guy?

art is where you find it

What can I say…. sheets of joy. I'm blown away

this morning

I love our morning walks with Ugo. Trouble is I often get left behind taking photos of mud and the like. here are a few I took this morning. It is so incredible to me how these plants, this earth, this sky can be so much of the countryside and yet so gritty, graphic and abstract.  So much work to do - buzzing with ideas. 

home again

UGO

Well it's been a while…. back home again from NZ and back in the studio at last with my faithful studio assistant.  Framing ready for "Side by Side" an exhibition at Vinosofia in Spello next week and getting organised to take some works to brighten up our local "Festa della Casagna" here in Manciano.

Things I love about Italy… I have been down to the local blacksmith - still pretty common in these parts… and he's going to make me some steel frames for these couple of paintings (red on red on red and blue/black). I'm really hoping that this will turn out to be an answer to an ongoing issue for me.